18 books like Private Berlin

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March Violets Philip Kerr · 1989 · ★ 3.9 · 245p · ≈ 8h · Moderate THE FIRST NOVEL IN PHILIP KERR’S ACCLAIMED HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES   When private investigator Bernie Gunther agrees to track down some stolen jewels, his search takes him down the dangerous streets of pre-World War 2 Berlin and into the path of the most influential players in Nazi Germany…   Wisecracking cop turned private investigator Bernie Gunther specializes in missing persons,… Shares: Berlin, Private investigators

Owls Don't Blink Erle Stanley Gardner · 1942 · 277p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Cool & Lam Mystery #6 (1942) New York lawyer Emory Hale hires Los Angeles duo Bertha Cool and Donald Lam to find person-of-interest Roberta Fenn in New Orleans. For a client Hale refuses to name. Because there's nothing shady about that set-up, right? Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Thriller

A Man Without Breath Philip Kerr · 2013 Bernie Gunter dances with the SS, the Gestapo, and his past. Shares: Berlin, Private investigators

Funeral in Berlin Len Deighton · 1743 · ★ 3.7 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Demanding A ferociously cool Cold War thriller from the author of The Ipcress File.Len Deighton's third novel has become a classic, as compelling and suspenseful now as when it first exploded on to the bestseller lists.In Berlin, where neither side of the wall is safe, Colonel Stok of Red Army Security is prepared to sell an important Russian scientist to the West – for a price. British intelligence are… Shares: Berlin, Thriller

The Simple Art of Murder Raymond Chandler · 1950 · ★ 4.1 · 533p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators

Persuader Lee Child · 2003 · ★ 4.5 · 496p · ≈ 16h · Moderate Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he’s moved from place to place…without family…without possessions…without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble—big, violent, complicated trouble—finds Reacher wherever he goes. And when trouble finds him, Reacher does not quit, not once…not ever. But some unfinished business has… Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Missing persons, Private investigators, Thriller

The Ipcress File Len Deighton · 1962 · ★ 3.9 · 222p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Len Deighton's classic first novel, whoseprotagonist is a nameless spy – later christened Harry Palmer and made famous worldwide in the iconic 1960s film starring Michael Caine.The Ipcress File was not only Len Deighton's first novel, it was his first bestseller and the book that broke the mould of thriller writing.For the working class narrator, an apparently straightforward mission to find a… Shares: Berlin, Missing persons, Thriller

The Wrong Case James Crumley · 1986 · ★ 3.9 · 272p · ≈ 9h · Moderate Milo once had a thriving divorce-case business in the small town of Meriwether, in the pacific Northwest, but because of liberal new divorce laws has taken to drinking and staring out the window. He's up to his third drink of the morning when an attractive young woman walks into his office and asks him to find her brother. he takes on what seems a routine missing-person case in hopes of getting… Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators

The Mexican Tree Duck James Crumley · 1993 · 251p · ≈ 8h · Moderate C.W. Sughrue is at it again, and this time he's looking for a beautiful, kidnapped woman named Sarita Cisneros Pines. No one can find her -- not her well-connected Republican husband, not the FBI, not even a group of violent guys with South American accents. And when Sughrue starts searching, working his way from Montana to the Mexican border, he comes up empty too. Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators

Looking for Rachel Wallace Robert B. Parker · 1980 · ★ 4.5 · 219p · ≈ 7h · Moderate When Spenser accepts a job as a "bodyguard" for a beautiful young woman, he gets in way over his head. Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators

Trace Patricia Cornwell · 1529 · ★ 3.8 · 416p · ≈ 13h · Demanding Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from south Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago.In Trace, Scarpetta travels to Richmond, Virginia, at the odd behest of the recently appointed Chief Medical Examiner, who claims that he needs her help to solve a perplexing crime. When she arrives, however, Scarpetta finds that nothing is as she expected: her former lab is in… Shares: American Suspense fiction, Thriller

The Eye of Osiris R. Austin Freeman · 1911 · ★ 3.8 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Dr. John Thorndyke is a professor of medicine, but he is also a pathological sleuth with a taste for mysteries that would stop other detectives cold. The disappearance of a successful archaeologist. poses a disturbing riddle to Thorndyke: "When is a murder not a murder?' The answer hinges on the question of whether or not it is possible to fabricate a corpse out of whole cloth. And why would… Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators, Thriller

Ticktock Dean Koontz · 1996 · ★ 3.8 · 318p · ≈ 10h · Moderate Tommy Phan is a 30-year-old Vietnamese-American detective and novelist living in Southern California, and a chaser of the American Dream. He drives home his brand-new Corvette one day to discover a strange doll on his doorstep. It's a rag doll made entirely of white cloth, with no face or hair or clothes. Where the eyes should be, there are two crossed stitches of black thread. Five sets of… Shares: Private investigators, Thriller

Without Fail Lee Child · 2002 · ★ 4.5 · 408p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Skilled, cautious, and anonymous, Jack Reacher is perfect for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically, of course. A female Secret Service agent wants Reacher to find the holes in her system, and fast—because a covert group already has the vice president in their sights. They’ve planned well. There’s just one thing they didn’t plan on: Reacher. Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Thriller

Killing Floor Lee Child · 1997 · ★ 4.1 · 475p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter. He’s just passing through Margrave, Georgia, and in less than an hour, he’s arrested for murder. Not much of a welcome. All Reacher knows is that he didn’t kill anybody. At least not here. Not lately. But he doesn’t stand a chance of convincing anyone. Not in Margrave, Georgia. Not a chance in hell. Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Thriller

Echo Burning Lee Child · 2001 · ★ 4.1 · 414p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Ex-military cop Jack Reacher returns in this latest in the award-winning series critics call "spectacular" (The Seattle Times), "relentless" (Denver Post), and "perfect" (The New York Times Book Review). Reacher is hitching through the heat of West Texas and getting desperate for a ride. The last thing he's worried about is exactly who picks him up. She's called Carmen. She's a good-looking… Shares: American Detective and mystery stories, Private investigators, Thriller

The Monkey's Raincoat Robert Crais · 1987 · ★ 4.0 · 256p · ≈ 8h · Moderate When Los Angeles private detective Elvis Cole investigates the disappearance of Ellen Lang's husband and young son, he stumbles into a bizarre nightmare of high-level intrigue, missing drugs, and murder in Hollywood's seamy underworld. Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators

Calamity town Ellery Queen · 1942 · ★ 4.1 · 284p · ≈ 9h · Challenging Ellery Queen moves into the small town of Wrightsville, somewhere in New England, in order to get some peace and quiet so that he can write a book. As a result of renting a furnished house, he becomes peripherally involved in the story of Jim Haight and Nora Wright. Nora's father is president of the Wrightsville National bank, "oldest family in town", and when the head cashier Jim Haight became… Shares: Missing persons, Private investigators

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